Improvement in carriages



.UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFIoe HENRI RICHTER, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO GRAHAM AND GADY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT m CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,814, dated February 22, 1876; application filed I September 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, HENRI RICHTER, of Dubuque, in the county of Dubuqne and Stateof Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriages and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon The object of this invention is to so strengthen and support the sill of a long carriage as to prevent it from sagging, and thus interfering with the proper operation of the door, and it consists, mainly, in the combination of a pecuEarly-constructed metal strengtheningipieee with the sill and door-posts, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side a a suitable framing-pieces secured thereto by means of the bent iron a as shown. B represents the metal strengthening-piece, adetached view of which is shown in Fig. 3, which is secured to the sill A, side pieces ana and also to the inner sides of the door-posts- 0 G, as

shown. 01 01 also represent framing-pieces which, in connection with the others, form a quence ot' this construction, also, thedoorpost which carries the'door always preserves the same relative position to the sill, and, consequently, there is no difficulty in shutting the door. It will be observed that the metal piece B does not cover the entire inner face of the door-posts, and consequently a proper amount of wood-surface is left exposed for the upholsterer.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A carriage-frame provided with the metal strengthening-piece B, substantially as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this l5th day of June, 1875. 

